Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
14th June 2022, 01:04 PM
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Replies: 2,143
Views: 89,053
A night at the opera
Nor was an opera about Emmett Till cancelled despite more than 10,000 signatures on a petition to do just that.
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
14th June 2022, 12:30 PM
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Replies: 2,143
Views: 89,053
untapped potential
The information that I provided yesterday is publicly available and supports the interpretation given by Professor Bernstein, Jonathan Chait among others (and one with which I agree). You are the...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
13th June 2022, 05:38 PM
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Replies: 2,143
Views: 89,053
Janice Rogers Brown
What Mr. Shapiro said about Judge Janice Rogers Brown (discussed in a different comment) strongly supports the idea that he does not consider black judges to be lesser per se.
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
13th June 2022, 04:46 PM
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Replies: 2,143
Views: 89,053
must versus might
There is a difference between the words "must" and "might." Although the difference is slight, "criticism" carries with it some meanings that are distinct from "scrutiny." What you wrote is a...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
13th June 2022, 04:36 PM
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Replies: 2,143
Views: 89,053
scrutiny versus Stern
Scott Greenfield’s definition was (https://blog.simplejustice.us/2022/03/27/with-words-that-must-be-said/) “Cancel culture is the breakdown of social norms that allow for the free speech of criticism...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
13th June 2022, 04:24 PM
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Replies: 2,143
Views: 89,053
asked and answered
I have defined it and repeatedly linked to that definition. You are...speaking falsely...again and again.
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
13th June 2022, 10:51 AM
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Replies: 2,168
Views: 129,489
drug repurposing success ratio
You could knock me over with a feather. Here (https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/drug-repurposing-how-often-does-it-work) is a 2020 discussion on drug repurposing from Derek Lowe.
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
13th June 2022, 09:54 AM
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Replies: 2,143
Views: 89,053
the march of progress
At least one question that I asked you was back to March. I suggest you address that question first.
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
13th June 2022, 03:55 AM
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Replies: 2,143
Views: 89,053
relevance?
What does this have to do with cancel culture?
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
13th June 2022, 03:54 AM
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Replies: 2,143
Views: 89,053
scrutiny
Given that you have not answered my questions, I don't feel compelled to answer yours. Nevertheless, I provided a definition in comments #1725...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
11th June 2022, 07:38 AM
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Replies: 408
Views: 13,317
Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Martinez
Justice Sotomayor wrote (https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-1009_19m2.pdf), "Ultimately, the Court’s decision prevents habeas peti- tioners in States like Arizona from receiving any...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
11th June 2022, 06:51 AM
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Replies: 408
Views: 13,317
one reasons for ineffective assistance of counsel
In the wake of the decision by the SC, Christina Swarns of the Innocence Project wrote, "The vast majority of criminal cases in the United States are handled by state public defenders. Unfortunately,...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
11th June 2022, 06:27 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 656
indictment on little evidence
I am almost finished reading the book Railroaded, by Philip Crawford, Jr. At the time of his indictment, there was no murder weapon, no eyewitness, and no confession. Under leading questioning from...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
10th June 2022, 06:04 AM
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Replies: 2,143
Views: 89,053
hostilty or aversion
No, that is a complete mischaracterization of what I have been saying. Here is a paragraph from Mr. Shapiro's letter: "Third, under the reasoning of the IDEAA Report, none of this objective textual...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
10th June 2022, 03:44 AM
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Replies: 2,143
Views: 89,053
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
10th June 2022, 03:40 AM
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Replies: 2,143
Views: 89,053
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
9th June 2022, 04:04 PM
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Replies: 2,143
Views: 89,053
Georgetown's record
A faculty member whose tweet suggested that certain men die a horrible death to be followed by mutilation of their corpses. If people were offended by this tweet, then it ran afoul of Georgetown's...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
9th June 2022, 03:46 PM
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Replies: 2,143
Views: 89,053
the tweet itself
Thank you for provided the tweet; its wording is plainly different from yours.
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
9th June 2022, 03:44 PM
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Replies: 2,143
Views: 89,053
simple
I did not call for anyone to get fired. Would you now please do me the return courtesy of answering my question?
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
9th June 2022, 03:40 PM
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Replies: 2,143
Views: 89,053
Mark Joseph Stern
I provided a definition of cancel culture in comment #1725 (http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=13769744#post13769744), and this incident checked off several boxes and...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
9th June 2022, 03:32 PM
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Replies: 2,143
Views: 89,053
plain meaning
That is what at least one pundit and one blogger thought he meant, including one who agreed with you that the premise was wrong, and their articles have already been linked here. I am not sure that...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
9th June 2022, 09:10 AM
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Replies: 2,143
Views: 89,053
baseball
If I said that Ty Cobb is the best baseball player that ever lived, it necessarily follows that Barry Bonds is a lesser baseball player. Whether the premise is correct or incorrect is a separate...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
9th June 2022, 07:55 AM
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Replies: 2,143
Views: 89,053
scrutiny for the goose and not the gander
Why not ask SuburbanTurkey the same question? ST wrote, "Whoever responsible for extending a job offer to Ilya Shapiro should be having their job performance scrutinized."
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
9th June 2022, 07:52 AM
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Replies: 2,143
Views: 89,053
Reckless
Mr. Shapiro's position was that Sri Srinivasan was the best pick for President Biden. It logically follows from this premise that any other pick is lesser, regardless of skin color, as Jonathan...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
9th June 2022, 07:34 AM
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Replies: 2,143
Views: 89,053
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
8th June 2022, 01:29 PM
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Replies: 2,143
Views: 89,053
bad IDEAA
On the one hand Georgetown suspends someone whose tweets (while ill-judged) were not racist, except by a willful misreading of them. On the other hand, Georgetown is OK with tweets calling for...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
8th June 2022, 08:24 AM
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Replies: 2,143
Views: 89,053
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
8th June 2022, 08:22 AM
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Replies: 2,143
Views: 89,053
what actually transpired
I suggest that you get up to speed on the facts of incident, which establish that there was a double standard regarding what could and could not be tweeted. Regarding your smell test, it's not much...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
8th June 2022, 08:18 AM
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Replies: 2,143
Views: 89,053
What actually happened
The tweets predated Mr. Shapiro's appointment at Georgetown. Mr. Shapiro acknowledged that the tweets were poorly worded and deleted them. Other people kept the tweets alive. Mr. Shapiro never...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
8th June 2022, 08:15 AM
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Replies: 2,143
Views: 89,053
Georgetown's two standards
Ilya Shapiro's letter was posted at FIRE (https://www.thefire.org/ilya-shapiro-resignation-letter-to-georgetown-university-law-center-june-6-2022/).
"Third, under the reasoning of the IDEAA...
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Forum: USA Politics
6th June 2022, 09:43 AM
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Replies: 3,347
Views: 273,057
Special Olympics in Florida
"The Special Olympics scrapped COVID-19 vaccine requirements for competitors after Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fl.) warned he would impose $27.5 million fines. (USA Today)" MedPageToday...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
2nd June 2022, 08:31 PM
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Replies: 458
Views: 35,903
Chilling? really?
Curiously the Luke Mitchell case came up in a discussion of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on social media. The commenter's point was that the United States was not the only country in the...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
2nd June 2022, 08:06 PM
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Replies: 408
Views: 13,317
Paul House wrongful conviction
Brian Haas wrote (https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2014/05/03/death-row-to-freedom-paul-house/8577781/), "In 1996, the first answer to her prayers came. It didn't set her son free but it...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
2nd June 2022, 11:12 AM
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Replies: 2,168
Views: 129,489
Rebound and rethink
Thank you for that article. I was unduly harsh in my overall assessment of Dr. Fenyves' article, and I am rethinking my individual criticisms. It will be interesting to see what the next generation...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
2nd June 2022, 08:03 AM
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Replies: 2,168
Views: 129,489
pregnancy and the vaccine
"Infants born to mothers who were vaccinated against COVID-19 during pregnancy had a lower risk of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2, even when the Omicron variant was dominant, Norwegian researchers...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
2nd June 2022, 07:59 AM
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Replies: 2,168
Views: 129,489
A study regarding long Covid
Derek Lowe wrote (https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/search-long-covid), "I look forward to further data from this study, and from others, but this one does put a lot of markers down. If there...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
2nd June 2022, 05:30 AM
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Replies: 408
Views: 13,317
A catch-22
At WaPo Radley Balko wrote, "But last week the Supreme Court snuffed it out. Led by Thomas, the majority ruled that while the court’s 2012 decision did allow the federal courts to find that Jones’s...
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Forum: USA Politics
1st June 2022, 11:33 AM
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Replies: 3,347
Views: 273,057
Fauci and his frenemy Larry Kramer
Anthony Fauci was able to form a productive if complex (https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/28/larry-kramer-force-of-nature-fauci-others-remember-aids-activist/) relationship with AIDS activist Larry...
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Forum: USA Politics
1st June 2022, 10:05 AM
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Replies: 3,347
Views: 273,057
a Republican Study Committee and Dr. Fauci
"“If Congress fails to hold the Fauci clique accountable, and fails to reform public health agencies, we will be giving far-left bureaucrats a blank check to shut the country down whenever they want...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
31st May 2022, 09:13 AM
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Replies: 3,045
Views: 166,388
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
31st May 2022, 08:35 AM
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Replies: 2,168
Views: 129,489
new guidance concerning Paxlovid
"Based on this research, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new guidance last week for people experiencing Covid-19 rebound after Paxlovid...It's not entirely clear that that...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
29th May 2022, 07:08 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 656
tunnel vision and anti-gay prejudice
I am not entirely clear on the motive, myself. I seem to recall the suggestion that Brandon's coming out to his parents was an issue. However, my understanding is that he was out to his father (but...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
28th May 2022, 09:01 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 656
Witness testimony
There are several items that often appear in wrongful convictions. The ones that I can think of at the moment are motives that don't entirely make sense, timelines that border on being impossibly...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
28th May 2022, 07:51 AM
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Replies: 408
Views: 13,317
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Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
27th May 2022, 06:17 AM
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Replies: 538
Views: 26,093
Russell Blaylock editorial
"A peer-reviewed neurosurgery journal published an article peddling false statements about the pandemic -- without any evidence to support its claims, an expert said.
The editorial by Russell...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
27th May 2022, 05:22 AM
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Replies: 408
Views: 13,317
forfeiture forgiven
Noam Biale wrote (https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/05/conservative-majority-hollows-out-precedent-on-ineffective-counsel-claims-in-federal-court/), "Finally, one procedural quirk is worth mentioning...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
26th May 2022, 02:45 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 656
juries should step up
Suddenly,
I agree. I would also wish that the jury, when presented with evidence of any sort of...ethically challenged...behavior would also decide that BARD had not been attained. That would...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
25th May 2022, 05:09 AM
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Replies: 2,168
Views: 129,489
cocktails for two
PMID (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34315827/): 34315827 DOI: 10.1126/science.abi9310 and PNAS (doi: 10.1073/pnas.2106379119.) and Nucleic Acids Research...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
24th May 2022, 07:52 PM
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Replies: 2,168
Views: 129,489
Topol on Paxlovid in December
In December Eric Tool wrote (https://erictopol.substack.com/p/why-paxlovid-is-a-just-in-time-breakthrough?s=r), "We’re desperately in need of some good news—this is it. This week the results from 2...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
24th May 2022, 05:53 PM
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Replies: 2,168
Views: 129,489
Dr. Fenyves article
I suspect that your question is a rhetorical one; nevertheless my answer is no, I do not question that they are profit-driven. My interpretation of Dr. Fenyves' argument is that the studies were...
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